Cancer Comic Strip

My name is Suzan St Maur and I've had cancer twice. I find that humor helps me get through my cancer, and from what I understand it helps many others too. This blog is dedicated not to information about the disease, but to cancer warriors and their relatives/friends who just want some cheering chuckles. By all means share your funny stories and jokes with us - email them to suze @ suzanstmaur.com (If you want to know more about me see my profile on here or http://HowToWriteBetter.net)

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Watching TV can make you sick: so what else is new?

TV viewers from around the world who, like me, find each new wave of cheaply produced TV shows increasingly nauseating, will be amused to learn that a Belgian research team has now discovered that medical programs can make you sick, too.

According to Dr Jan Van Mierlo, of Hasselt University, Belgium, "specifically, fear of illness increased with age and girls were more afraid of illness than boys. We questioned adolescents who, in general, had no personal experience of hospitals and doctors and are likely to have learned a lot through TV. It's a subliminal relationship, something you take with you from these programmes."

About Me

Canadian-born, UK based Suzan St Maur has written for pretty well every business medium short of tablets of stone (and that only because she's useless with a hammer and chisel). She now focuses this star-quality experience into blog writing for her clients, plus coaching and training in blog writing for clients who want to write consistently sparkling blog posts for themselves. She is also a 30+ times published nonfiction author and runs the very popular writing resource, HowToWriteBetter.net - a PR3 grown from nothing to 100,000 page views per month in just three years, recognized by Alltop.com as one of their top 250 social media sites. Suzan lives near Milton Keynes, England with her university student son and various dogs and cats.